This just happened to my group, anyone that was fighting at keep was crashed out whenever we were about to win, and I (at mine) was unaffected by it. It seems really suspicious.
But he’s still right, any condition removal skill removes all stacks of ONE condition.
Therefor, wait dodge several DB, and remove the bleeding you couldn’t dodge once he stops with DB. End of bleeding, end of thief’s life.
I personally am not fond of the DB spammer (I only do it in pve because they are mindless undead anyway). Last night I fought a DB spammer, he was never able to beat me but he had 3 stealth skills making it almost impossible for me to counter-act (he also used signet of shadows, I didn’t, so it was hard for me to catch up without using initiatives (shortbow) or shadowstep (my condition removal))… so in the end I just let him run.
It sounds like you were just fighting a random person in hot joins, and not the death blossom build. You don’t take stealth skills on the build—except shadow refuge for obvious reasons.
It takes me about 5-6 seconds to get up to 25 stacks of bleed, and at 25 stacks of bleed I am doing 8,775 damage a second—this is not including other conditions. Depending on the class, they have 1 condition removal skill which may only remove 1 condition, and by order of priority, it will not be the bleed so they will die. If it’s an all condition removal like Elixir C for example, it makes no difference because I will be able to get enough stacks back on within another 5-6 seconds. I never run out of initiative if I spam if I manage my steal, weapon swaps, and withdraws correctly. This is if they chose to stay, they might be able to run away, but in which case, I win because they abandoned their node.
Ezekial@ your post is the d u m b e s t thing i saw in about month.Dieing instantly from Dots?Do you even know how condition removal works?It removes ALL stacks. The worst thing good condition thief can do is waste his resources on a big initial stacking ,which will be removed and what next?I am condition thief and my fights 1v1 are lasting average between 20 sec and 2 min.My bigest number of damage from direct damage is like 1200.It takes about 150 ticks to kill player with normal 15-20kHP and if 150-200 ticks are not enough time to you to remove them,or kill the enemy,then sorry m8….
You are not playing the build the op is talking about.
Lots of people posting in here do not realize what a death blossom thief is, and what they are actually capable of doing. The entire mechanics of that build is to get 25 bleed stacks on a target very fast. There is not enough condition removal on any spec to actually deal with it, and if you’re playing a bunker class you’ll die almost instantly.
I personally have no problem with how the build works, but I do think that being invincible while using death blossom needs to be changed. It is just too easy for a thief to not take any damage while they spam their caltrops and death blossom.
People are saying to learn to counter, but it is impossible to counter this spec if it is played well.
I hope you can get any/all armors from paid tournaments. I feel all armor should be easily accessible. Most people are wearing armors =< r20. It’s pretty boring.
